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The Tripura Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two Rohingya men near the India-Bangladesh border after local people tipped them off, PTI reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohammad Salim, a 21-year-old, and 20-year-old Jahangir Alam were arrested from Rajnagar village in West Tripura district the day before. \u201cIt was found during preliminary investigation that they had entered Indian territory from Bangladesh in search of jobs,\u201d said Officer-in-charge of Battala police station Sahadeb Bhowmik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Refugee cards were recovered from the two, who confessed that they had lived in a camp for Rohingyas in Chittagong in Bangladesh. Salim and Alam were scheduled to be produced in a local court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Border security officials said undocumented Rohingya immigrants have often used the Tripura corridor of the India-Bangladesh border to enter India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In June 2018, the\u00a0Ministry of Home Affairs\u00a0had instructed all the states to make sure that the activities of undocumented immigrants were monitored by police and intelligence agencies. The refugees pose \u201cserious challenges\u201d and security concerns as some of them engage in illegal activities and are \u201cvulnerable to radicalisation\u201d, the ministry had told the states. They had also been asked to record the biometrics of refugees to stop them from getting Indian identity documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Centre had announced in August 2017 that it was planning to deport all\u00a0Rohingya refugees\u00a0living in the country. The government had told the Supreme Court that the continued\u00a0illegal immigration of Rohingyas\u00a0to India had \u201cserious national security ramifications and threats\u201d. The deportation order was challenged in court. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to examine in August if undocumented\u00a0Rohingya immigrants\u00a0can be granted refugee status.<\/p>\n